438 ANTHIDA. 
Nepal, and Mr. Blyth has recorded its occurrence m the 
vicinity of Calcutta. 
The note of this bird is said to be very loud, and is heard 
at a great distance; its food consists of various insects; and 
its eggs, as noticed by M. Polydore Roux in his Ornitho- 
logy of Provence, have a reddish white ground colour, 
speckled with darker red and light brown; the length ten 
lines and a half, by seven lines and a half in breadth. 
The figure of Richard’s Pipit here given was taken, by 
permission, from the bird originally obtained by Mr. Vigors, 
which, with his whole collection, was some years since pre- 
sented to the Zoological Society. 
The upper mandible of the beak is dark brown, the lower 
mandible pale yellow brown; the irides very dark brown, 
almost black; a light-coloured streak passes over the eyes 
and ear-coverts, the latter are brown; the feathers on the 
top of the head, nape, back, wing, and upper tail-coverts, 
are clove brown in the middle, with lighter yellowish brown 
edges ; the margins of all the wing-coverts and tertials buffy 
white; quill-feathers dark brown; the outer tail-feather on 
each side is dull white, with an elongated patch of brown 
at the base of the inner web ; the next feather on each side 
is also in part dull white, but the brown colour on the mner 
web extends over a larger surface; the three next feathers 
on each side are very dark brown; the two middle tail- 
feathers are shorter than the others, not so dark a brown, 
and have light wood-brown coloured edges. 
The chin, throat, and all the under surface of the body, 
dull white, tinged on the sides of the neck and on the upper 
part of the breast with yellowish brown, and spotted with 
dark brown; the flanks are also tinged with pale yellow 
brown; legs, toes, and claws, pale flesh colour: the hind 
claw very long, and but slightly curved. © 
